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  • January 22, 2010
No slam dunk for Thrasher

The five week race to head the Republican Party of Florida looks like a two-man, one-woman race now, and the early favorite is facing criticism from a powerful Senate Democrat.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Economic Snapshot: Car Sales Rebound

Every area of the Gulf Coast exceeded the modest statewide 1.3% increase in sales of autos and related accessories in October.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Banker confirms downturn's severity

Most people agree that today's market is unique. But most people don't have nearly a half-century of professional banking experience to use for comparison.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Lee County plummet drives up sales

If you thought the residential real estate boom years were crazy busy in the Fort Myers area, 2009 was even more frenetic.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Investment Adviser Tainted by Nadel Scandal Seeks a New Home

Coffee Talk hears that Chris Moody, a onetime business partner of jailed Sarasota financier Arthur Nadel, is officially leaving town.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Bill Bradley's truth: Savings, taxes must rise

Former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley was known for big plays during his time with the NBA's New York Knicks in the '60s and '70s.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
Maybe folks really don't want high speed rail

When the Bradenton Herald gave Tampa Bay Partnership CEO Stuart Rogel an opportunity to answer a few questions for a story about high speed rail, they got a digital earful.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
What to take from Economic Scorecard?

We're number three! Out of five.Not very exciting perhaps, but the Spring 2009 version of the Regional Economic Scorecard, a product of the Tampa Bay Partnership, reveals quite a bit.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 22, 2010
The 12 days of bureaucrats' haze

Hillsborough County's planning and growth management department prides itself as being “the County's full service community development department that conducts planning, zoning, development review, permitting and inspections services.”

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  • Mark Gordon
  • January 21, 2010
Right Buy, Right Time

The fifth fastest growing company in the nation bought new office property on the Gulf Coast for a steal.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
The Hachems buy office building

Ashley 601 Inc., a company headed by Tampa investors Sam and Laurice Hachem, purchased the 55,000-square-foot historic office building on Ashley Drive north of Kennedy Boulevard for $4.1 million.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Asolo buys building for production center

The Asolo Repertory Theatre purchased the 36,963-square-foot former Athco flex building on Tallevast Road north of the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport for $1.65 million

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Inland American buys Malibu Lakes

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. purchased the 356-unit Malibu Lakes Apartments west of Tarpon Bay Boulevard and east of Interstate 75 for $31.02 million.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Lee County DOT buys Enterprise building

Lee County government purchased a 24,451-square-foot industrial manufacturing building on Enterprise Parkway north of Luckett Road and bordering Interstate 75 for $1.34 million.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Tampa's Encore project awarded $38 million grant

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has notified the city of Tampa that the city will receive $38 million in federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build the Encore project.

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